[3758] in WWW Security List Archive
Cookie question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Woody)
Mon Dec 9 11:44:55 1996
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 08:49:54 -0600
From: Woody <woooody@earthlink.net>
To: Darren Cook <darren@factcomm.co.jp>
CC: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
There is a limit on the amount of disk space the cookie file can use.
Take a look at http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html for
the information... There are security features you may not be aware
of.
In addition, cookies were made for maintaining state, persistent
connections with legacy systems (you know - mainframes). The shopping
cart is another useful extension to the spec, but I don't think that is
what Netscape had in mind when the created the cookie...
